Critic-Free Pretraining for Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning
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arXiv:2608.10473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online (O2O) reinforcement learning aims to leverage policies pretrained on static datasets while improving them through online interaction. However, directly reusing an offline-trained critic can hinder online fine-tuning: as the policy and data distribution change rapidly, value estimates inherited from offline training may become misaligned with the online environment, leading to inaccurate policy improvement and inefficient exploration. To address this problem, we introduce \textbf{C}ritic-\textbf{F}ree \textbf{P}retraining: an e
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.10473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online (O2O) reinforcement learning aims to leverage policies pretrained on static datasets while improving them through online interaction.
- However, directly reusing an offline-trained critic can hinder online fine-tuning: as the policy and data distribution change rapidly, value estimates inherited from offline training may become misaligned with the online environment, leading to inaccurate policy improvement and inefficient exploration.
- To address this problem, we introduce \textbf{C}ritic-\textbf{F}ree \textbf{P}retraining: an e
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“Critic-Free Pretraining for Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning” may affect what data AI products can use and where accountability sits. Product teams should watch compliance duties, rights holders should watch enforcement, and users should watch transparency and appeal mechanisms.
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